The festive season is here and retailers are busy designing offers with lucrative discounts. Now, it comes as a surprise that many retailers are offering 100% discounts on paid apps, and tempting customers to download them for free.

Check out 10 premium iPhone apps and they’re being given away free of charge by online retailers, but remember the offer is only for a limited time. The offer might lass for a few more hours or a week from now. But to know if it’s still for free, check if a price tag appears next to the app or the word ‘get’ that indicates there won’t be any charges, reports BGR.

Here’s a look at those 10 free apps:

Connect your Mac anywhere with ‘Air Login’ and access the Mac OS X screen on iPhone, iPad, or on iPod. The app has exciting features to perk up its style, display and functionality for a better user experience.

The ‘Fragment’ app lets you compose an image as per your whims. Use shapes and patterns to transform a simple image into prismatic art by adding twists of creativity to its whole look.

‘Pinpoint’ is another useful free iOS app that lets you emphasize significant portions of screenshots for later use. The app presents shots in a new perspective with new colours and sensitive information, among others. Surf websites privately and keep it a secret with the ‘Private web browser’ app.

Instead of fumbling through a heap of online websites, get access to your favourite sites with the ‘Search Ace’ app. Explore special effects in photos taken on your device with the ‘Cloud Camera+’ option that lets you draw, paint, filter, slide switch and do more with every picture.

The ‘SMobile’ app is created for visually challenged individuals so they get reliable access to craiglist. Do you have private videos and photos that you don’t want to share with anyone? Then, use the ‘Secretizer’ app for securing images by using a personal pin-code that prevents anybody else from having access to your stuff.

‘Local Cloud Pro’ accesses vital features of the Cloud for securing and controls your personal data. The last app on the list is ‘Cities’, an intriguing option allowing you to explore cities from around the world and know more about them.

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